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Senator chris coons joins us what it means for the party and ahead. And new fbi warnings from director chris wray, as he tells my colleague Pete Williams he was, quote, blown away by the state of espionage inside the United States. Well have more of petes exclusive interview coming up. Exclusive interview coming up. Welcome to meet the press daily. Im chuck todd, the u. S. Has put itself on firmer war footing as ukraine and our nato allies brace for this possible russian invasion of ukraine. The...

Senator chris coons joins us what it means for the party and ahead. And new fbi warnings from director chris wray, as he tells my colleague Pete Williams he was, quote, blown away by the state of espionage inside the United States. Well have more of petes exclusive interview coming up. Exclusive interview coming up. Welcome to meet the press daily. Im chuck todd, the u. S. Has put itself on firmer war footing as ukraine and our nato allies brace for this possible russian invasion of ukraine. The...

Senator chris coons joins us what it means for the party and ahead. And new fbi warnings from director chris wray, as he tells my colleague Pete Williams he was, quote, blown away by the state of espionage inside the United States. Well have more of petes exclusive interview coming up. Exclusive interview coming up. Welcome to meet the press daily. Im chuck todd, the u. S. Has put itself on firmer war footing as ukraine and our nato allies brace for this possible russian invasion of ukraine. The...

Towards putins progressive stance towards ukraine. but i think one of the things weve been seeing president biden and the senior team do very well is pull together our nato allies, canada and the united states and western and central european nations and push back on putin. i think putin was testing biden. testing nato, testing the west. and i think hes been surprised how forcefully and quickly were coming together. its not just american troops who are being deployed. its french, british, polish...

Robert obrien, the former national security adviser has a suggestion what we could be doing at home about all this. listen. >> one of the things the biden administration could do to restore the keystone pipeline and start restoring americans ability to be the number one energy producer and exporter in the world again and that would send a massive message to putin. if you drove oil prices down from 100 or 100 plus a barrel, it would take a lot of money out of his pockets. >> i know you are workin...

Belarus in two months when the joint exercises end. a journalist said a tougher response is needed. an miscalculated in a way, he cant even have a weaker response of the nato countries, the western countries, so its not as weak as russians have expected, but its not strong enough yet in order to really deter and push back on putin. >> the russian exercises end february 20th, the same day the olympics ends. >> sandra: tennessee senator marsha blackburn, thanks for being here. these were president...

>> german government about nord stream 2, the future of the pipeline. >> well, as you heard the president say yesterday at the press conference, if russia further invades ukraine there will no longer be a nord stream 2, we will bring an end to it and the german chancellor said we are working in lock step and coordinated in our efforts. in terms of the specifics, well let those conversations happen through diplomatic channels. but also reiterate that nord stream 2 is not operational, its a point ...

Crisis. emmanuel macron, asked by a journalist, what if nato was to try to push you out of germany, and putins answer, do you want to see france fighting russia? that would be war. ominous signals from that area of the world. >> sandra: more in the next hour. >> john: senator tom cotton wanting answers during a deadly arson fire in minneapolis. the man responsible only got ten years in prison, even though sentencing guidelines call for around 20 years. our congressional correspondent live on cap...

Normandy format, the format that the minsk agreement wb discussed through, includes ukraine, russia, georgia and france. another format we fully support. if those are conversations happening and typically through a diplomatic process there are a range of conversations happening at the same time. again, as i noted earlier the president spoke with president macron twice over the last week, including on sunday, the day before he spoke with president putin and i expect he will speak with him soon ag...

Could target the city of odessa, but buying time with the diplomatic push that putin is bolstering, building his forces while we are all talking? >> sure, well i know that my colleague, john kirby has spoken from the pentagon, i point you to his comments. but i would say that we are not -- we are always going to leave the door to diplomacy open because we think as long as we dont know what president putin is going to do, and we dont, and has not invaded ukraine at this point, its important to ke...